Can Anyone Explain How Alvin Greene Actually Won? - Newsweek
Academics call it “low-information voting”: the psychology of what goes through our heads when confronted with a ballot full of names or issues we know very little about. Long established in political-science circles, the topic is newly relevant with the surprise election last week of Democrat Alvin Greene in the South Carolina Senate primary. It was a baffling 18-point victory for an unknown, unemployed, inarticulate Army veteran who gave no speeches, distributed no literature, and won no endorsements in a noncampaign against experienced pol Victor Rawl. How did it happen? How did 59 percent of 169,542 South Carolinians decide to cast a vote for a man they’d never heard of? --->>>
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